Confusing Connotations

With the decrease in face-to-face interactions, there has been an influx of in miscommunication, as well as people being "fake" to each other to avoid drama. With the insight that's given in Pinker's piece "Word Don't Mean What They Mean", it brings to light the wimpy way in which we tiptoe around the point of what we want to say, using cushiony words to soften the blow. All over social media, we see the word "fake" plastered onto countless posts, so much so that the word itself is losing meaning. There are fake friends, fake followers, fake likes, fake faces, and fake love stitched into the fibers of our society, and the more we indulge in others being fake, the more poisoned we become. The fake words, however, are the worst. People tell their friends lies to shield them from the more hurtful truth, but the lies snowball, and often lead to fallouts. The fake, almost condescending way we communicate with each other spreads like a virus, and you can barely tell who is being honest, and who is covering up their emotion with fallacies laced with saccharinity. The fake speech we use that stems from social media is ruining our societies face-to-face interactions, as we talk so much online without meaning what we say, we don't know how to do it in person.